Master's degree Housing and Urban Renewal
Entry requirements
This course is aimed at students with an M1 or equivalent degree, who have knowledge in urban planning and development and wish to develop their skills in order to work in housing, and housing, urban and urban renewal policy in residential areas.
Benefits of the program
The programme’s pedagogical format, with students alternating between working at a company and studying at EUP, serves three objectives: provide students with transversal knowledge through the curriculum, so that they master the fundamental aspects needed to understand and analyse issues related to the field of housing and urban renewal; help them acquire and master specialised professional skills and know-how, thanks to their long-term integration in the workplace; encourage them to adopt reflective and analytical practices, by bringing these different types of experience into conversation with each other.
Acquired skills
It targets the following skills: diagnosis, forecasting and local observation for public policy, strategy and projects (urban, real estate or urban renewal); consulting and support for public and private stakeholders in this area; coordinating and steering initiatives within larger projects, in all phases; coordinating the city’s urban and social management policy programmes; organising relations between project managers, contractors, residents, users and managers of property complexes; mobilising knowledge, methods and tools to propose adapted and innovative solutions in the various activities involved in jobs in housing and urban renewal.
International
Due to the schedule of the work-study programme, the course is entirely located in France.
Capacities
25
Course venue
Your future career
Graduates may work in: management roles in housing departments of institutions that handle such policy; consulting and support for these initiatives and projects, steering, development and management of social housing; private property operations management; coordination for the city’s policy missions, etc.
They may work at local authorities, social housing bodies, property developers, consulting firms, associations and foundations specialised in housing for people in need, etc. Though the work-study course prepares graduates to work in the industry straight away,they are also completely capable of pursuing a PhD if they wish do so.
Professional integration
In previous graduating classes, between 40-60% of graduates continued to work at the company where they carried out their work-study programme. Others were employed in structures/institutions in the field of housing and urban renewal, in relatively close connection with the missions they carried out during their year of training.
Study objectives
The objective of the course is to train students to work in the housing sector and in housing, urban and urban renewal policy for residential areas.
Major thematics of study
Urban planning, spatial planning, environmental science.
Calendar
The work-study programme has a week-based structure: Between October and end of April, except for the period at the start of the year and the workshops, each week is made up of three days at a company and two days at university. From May to end of September, students are at their company full-time.
Semester 3
| Courses | ECTS | CM | TD | TP |
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UE Introductive
Introduction to the main concepts of housing policies and urban renewal | 4 | 30h | 30h | |
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UE Renouvellement urbain et politiques de la ville
The module will aim to give the students a culture on the issues and approaches of the French "Politique de la ville" and urban renewal, allowing them to intervene in these areas or / and to understand the logic of action and dialogue with the actors concerned. | 5 | 18h | 17h | |
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UE Le logement social
The purpose of the module is to provide a global vision of social housing both as a major object of public housing policies and in its internal functioning, that is to say mainly in project management and management activities. | 5 | 18h | 17h | |
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UE Sociologie de l'habitat et pratiques professionnelles
The purpose of this module is to sensitize the students to the sociology of housing and its applications and implications in the field of professional practices of housing and urban renewal. | 5 | 18h | 17h | |
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UE Préparation du mémoire
Preparation of the end of studies dissertation and initiation of the activity report. | 2 | |||
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UE Etudes et ingénierie professionnelle
The purpose of the module is to familiarize apprentices with methods mobilized at different stages of projects or policies. | 5 | 15h | 25h | |
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UE Workshop, études de terrain
During the workshops, the students are divided into groups of 7 to 9 people working on the same field of study - a French city outside the Ile-de-France - but on different issues. These workshops take place over a week. | 4 | 35h |
Semester 4
| Courses | ECTS | CM | TD | TP |
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UE Marchés du logement et acteurs privés
The purpose of this module, which focuses on the actors and the private sector, is twofold: it will provide students with an introduction to the economic and social mechanisms of the housing markets and their actors, and to discuss public action on these markets and its dysfunctions. | 5 | 18h | 17h | |
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UE Architecture et maîtrise d'ouvrage du logement
The purpose of this module is to provide participants with a knowledge of the evolution of housing architecture, between design, reception and production, through the client / architect / inhabitants relationship. | 5 | 18h | 17h | |
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UE Evolutions sociodémographiques, trajectoires, mobilités
The purpose of this module is to train students in socio-demographic issues of housing and urban renewal by exposing demographic and social changes and their consequences in residential terms. | 5 | 18h | 17h | |
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UE Etudes et ingénierie professionnelle
The purpose of the module is to familiarize apprentices with methods mobilized at different stages of projects or policies. | 5 | 15h | 25h | |
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UE Workshop, études de terrain
During the workshops, the students are divided into groups of 7 to 9 people working on the same field of study - a French city outside the Ile-de-France - but on different issues. These workshops take place over a week. | 4 | 35h | ||
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UE Mémoire
End of studies dissertation containing a professional activity report and a research article | 6 |
Claire CARRIOU
Christophe NOYE
Partners
La formation est accompagnée par un conseil de perfectionnement où sont représentées les principales institutions nationales ou franciliennes des milieux professionnels de l’habitat et du renouvellement urbain. Elle repose sur l’existence d’un vaste réseau (de collectivités, d’institutions publiques et privées, d’associations, de bailleurs sociaux et de promoteurs privés, de bureaux d’études et de cabinets de conseils, etc.), proposant des offres d’emploi, et accueillant des apprenti.es.